French wire. Some people prefer it & feel it gives a more antique look. I find it tricky & have never become good with it, preferring bead tips....
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Hello, Daniel. It's not a good idea to put your personal e-mail here. You can edit it out of your post & use Conversations to send...
Yes, if I'm going to knot, I only use silk. You need knotting tweezers to do it properly. When I was teaching myself, I practiced by taking...
It looks like a home stringing job to me. I'd knot them with small pears & maybe tiny crystal beads between.
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It refers you to a different page of the same site in the link I posted: http://www.ceramichepigato.it/
There's a Pigato who make undecorated blanks: http://www.ceramichepigato.it/chisiamo_en.html
Most likely. We'd need sharp closeups of plain surfaces on different sides to be absolutely certain, but the question of whether or not something...
This one sold for $60. If bidders had believed auction house representation of pre-ban ivory, it would have exceeded estimate of $100 - 200....
Probably Chinese resin copies of Japanese netsuke. A search for 'netsuke rolling face' seems to turn up the greatest number at once, all various...
I went back to find that thread in connection with another we've had more recently & found it again this time by searching my own posts for...
Maybe something like this: [IMG] https://www.antiquers.com/threads/help-me-to-identification-order.23302/#post-312429 Not too different in...
Great thought. I was trying to figure out why the torso would be twisted so far to the side & also how the right heel could be so far back if the...
At least after 1990. Funny you mentioned Egyptian souvenir spoons made in Germany. The best bracelets that look like Egyptian souvenirs I have...
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When I was a very young child, watching TV cartoons in the morning before my parents woke up, I would hear an announcement, delivered by a stern...
Somehow hopped over this when I remarked about the hole in the hand. Holly is right, half the barrel is missing, which is what pegged into the...
Have a feeling I'm thinking of the Gorton's fisherman. [IMG]
Someone seems to have put this together with parts on hand. Have you formed some idea of what the beads are made of? What seems to be under the...
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